HISP-P 495  Luso-Brazilian Colloquium  (3 credits)

TOPIC: After Modernism: Brazilian Fiction in the Late Twentieth
Century

In this course we will read a variety of short fiction and novels
produced in Brazil between the 1960s and the 1990s in an effort to
map out important aesthetic and ideological trends of the period.
Brazil experiences convulsive social and political change during
these decades. We will be principally concerned with how Brazilian
writers have responded through their fictional work to such changes
as the imposition of a military dictatorship, the transition from
dictatorship to democratic governance, the feminist movement, and
the reexamination of racial relations and the myth of racial
democracy.  Among the writers we will consider are Carlos Sussekind,
Raduan Nassar, Rubem Fonseca, Joao Gilberto Noll, Zulmira Ribeiro
Tavares, Helena Parente Cunha, Marilene Felinto, Sonia Coutinho, and
Sergio Sant'Anna.

Requirements: 1 oral presentation, 1 short paper (4-5 pp), 1 final
paper (8-10 pp.)

Note:  This course meets jointly with HISP-P 695.

HISP-P 495 #6285 2:30P-3:45P  TR  WH114  Prof. Sabrina Karpa-Wilson
NOTE:  Time, day and room change.